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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Pinned ideas

PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all
PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...

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Support JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversions directly in BAW (without the need to import a 3rd party library)

Support JSON-to-XML and XML-to-JSON conversions directly in BAW (without the need to import a 3rd party library)
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Workflow 0 Future consideration

Improved credential control

We are in the process of migrating a client and your security team has raised the point about the IBM RPA where all vault credentials are available to all users and scripts. They requested an improvement in the tool so that each credential is lin...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration

Screen Recording Using Secondary Monitor

Issue reported by user fertig@us.ibm.com IRNF-20 I normally work with my Win10 Laptop and an extra monitor. When I tried to execute the "Start recorder" function in IBM RPA Studio, the recorder would start, and I was able to find the Windows appli...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Is a defect

Allow search for part of words instead of whole word

Search does now work for Japanese : need to be able to search with parts of a word
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Latest version of Microsoft Report Viewer should be supported with latest Datacap Report Viewer (RV2)

Microsoft is no longer supporting the current version of MS ReportViewer 2010 Redistributable which is currently included with Datacap 9.1.9 iFix3.
about 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Planned for future release

Allow sorting of documents in policies by name

Within a policy documents are only sorted by date. The sorting shall also be possible by name of the document as e.g. in the process overview.
about 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Enhanced support for Objects as per BPMN 2.0 Specifications

It would be ideal if IBM Addresses the known BPMN 2.0 Compliance shortcomings as listed out on the support website https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS2MKC/com.ibm.bwl.doc/topics/bpmn_import_map.html For Reference the BPMN 2.0 Specificat...
almost 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Adding Portal allowing business user to run reports

The current situation when a business or technical user need to run a pdf or excel report he would need to email the bot with the requested report and the bot will email him back with the report attached, The idea is to give a web portal to the us...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Not under consideration

- How to Automate IBM Datacap application Manager entries with out manual intervention including Admin and Engine Databases (Microsoft SQL server)

Hi Team, Case - TS008622751 is raised on the same We had discussion with Aditya from IBM Support on How to automate Application manager and to understand feature request Aditya was mentioning that we should submit a feature request with the ac...
over 2 years ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration

Impliment true off line scanning

Continue scanning when central system is not running
over 1 year ago in Datacap 0 Future consideration